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The place to be
The Korean troupe effectively challenge the notion that dancers are physically expert but mere interpreters of other people’s thoughts, writes CHRISTINE LINDEY
PAS DE DEUX: Hyuk Kwon, Jaeyoung Lee in Equilibrium

SIGA
The Place, London


AFTER so many months of Covid-enforced privation, I shared the audience’s palpable pleasure at being back at The Place, London’s deliberately inexpensive centre for international experimental and innovatory modern dance.  

Its usual friendly, unpretentious ambience from staff and audience was dominated by the young, some of whom appeared to have arrived fresh from the centre’s dance class or rehearsal.

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